{"id":12644,"date":"2013-08-22T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T23:37:28","slug":"how-to-win-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/how-to-win-a-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Win a Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book could be titled &#8220;How and Why You Should Do Everything Possible to Avoid Getting Into a Fight.&#8221; The authors (both martial artists who&#8217;ve been around the block a few times and have the scars to show it) spend a good number of pages explaining why fighting is always terrible idea &#8212; even if you manage to win, you end up losing (your attacker&#8217;s relatives could sue you or seek revenge, you could go to prison, and for the rest of your life you could carry the knowledge of having crippled or maimed another person).<\/p>\n<p>The authors also go into detail explaining how to recognize the first signs of a situation that could escalate into a fight and what to do. Only after they&#8217;ve convinced you to avoid a fight do they get to the section about effective ways of defending yourself. <\/p>\n<p>The final third of the book deals with the often unconsidered aftermath of a fight: administering first aid and what to do to stay out of jail.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guide to avoiding and surviving violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12650,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}